Big surprise: I went running again
Over the weekend, I escaped the dreary windy weather of Amsterdam and ran the Nice half marathon to a personal best time. I’m …
Tokyo Marathon 2024
Welcome back to my blog! In this post I'll share my journey to Tokyo and my experience at the marathon, covering the training period, race prep, the race itself, and my post-race feelings. …
Announcing: GPX Splice
I'm happy to announce GPX Splice, an app for Android and iPhone that offers the easiest way to split and merge GPX files and Strava activities. In this post I'm sharing what it does exactly and where you can find it. …
Tour of React Native in 2024
Happy new year everyone! It’s a day into 2024 and I’m already back at work on the blog. I wasn’t planning to spend my holidays making a phone app, but with no travel planned and Google holding me ransom, that’s somehow what I ended up doing. …
Ljubljana Half Marathon, 2023 Race Report
Or, more accurately, an account of zombie-shuffling 21 kilometers through the Slovenian capital. I'll go ahead and say up front that this race qualifies as the hardest run I've ever completed. …
Netherlands to Slovenia: let’s finish this!
Today’s post is a two for one special: since I was certifiably wrecked after my adventure yesterday (described as day 8 below), I’ …
Once more over the Alps
If yesterday was an appetizer, then today would certainly be the main course. Plus dessert, I’d say. The focus was on crossing the …
Bike trip continued: first taste of the Alps
After spending days endlessly going up and down the rolling hills across Germany and slogging through miserable conditions, today would mark a new phase …
Journey across Germany: surfing edition
That’s right, today not only was I riding my bike, but I was also surfing the storm fronts. While the weather was quite …
The bike trip day 4
Where am I going? What am I doing? Who am I? These are some questions whose answers evaporated out of my brain yesterday as …